Recent Acquisitions

The Frye Art Museum continues to strategically build its collection through purchases and gifts, both deepening existing areas of strength and diversifying holdings to reflect the museum’s expansive curatorial program and Seattle’s globalized present.

Acquisitions of the last ten years demonstrate the museum’s commitment to growing and contextualizing its distinctive historical collections of late nineteenth- and twentieth-century European and American art while broadening its holdings of contemporary works to embrace previously underrepresented identities, perspectives, and forms of expression. To some extent, acquisitions mirror the museum’s exhibition history, creating a material record of the institution’s engagement with local, national, and international artists and commemorating the special audience connection formed through temporary presentations. Contemporary artworks chosen for the collection often respond to or complicate the narratives around mediums and genres traditionally associated with the Frye, like painting, landscape, and portraiture.

Valenzuela, Rodrigo
2015
Boafo, Amoako
2021
Crowell, Web
2015
Gutierrez, Gabriella
1994
Calderon, Mark
2012
Ojih Odutola, Toyin
2014
Verboeckhoven, Eugène-Joseph
1858
Spafford, Michael
1994
Workman, Tom
1994
Chew, C.T.
1994
Chwala, Fritz
n.d.
Tsutakawa, Mayumi
1994
Valenzuela, Rodrigo
2015
Fried, S. Daniel
1994
Nestler, Rose
2017-2018
Maxwell, Noemie
1993
Smith, Scott
1993
The Black Constellation
2012
Sparling, Presha
1994
Valenzuela, Rodrigo
2015
Dakron, Ron
1994
Machetanz, Fred
1957
Wechsler, Sadie
2021
Butler, Ishmael
2015
Bishop, Jeffrey
1993
Soldi, Rafael
2013
Simpson, Buster
1974-2013
Struck, Rebecca
1994
Ramsay, Francis Dennis
n.d.
Shapiro, Ann Leda
2022
Ingram, C. Davida
2015
Self, Tschabalala
2021
Hazleton, Lesley
2015
Fiset, Joan
1994
Haerizadeh, Ramin
2016
Berk, Leo Saul
2012
Davidson, John
1994
Valenzuela, Rodrigo
2015
Guerra, Jose Rodriguez
1994
Aranda, Juventino
2018
Muñoz, Rie
1970
Lasker-Schuler, Else
1993
The Black Constellation
2012
Fontaine-Carlson, Mary
1994
Valenzuela, Rodrigo
2015
Whitman, Walt
1994
Park, Joseph
2007
Armstrong, Gretchen Adele
1993
Browning, Matt
2012
Fejes, Claire
1963
Moor, Dimitrii S.
1920
Valenzuela, Rodrigo
2015
Williamson, Robyn
1994
Vaughan, Molly Jae
2022
Bruch, Cris
2015
Dahl, Hans
1883-1915
Zuckerman-Hartung, Molly
2008-2011
Levine, Stacey
2015
Sparling Beckley, Chase
1994
Simpson, Buster
1978-2013
Ojih Odutola, Toyin
2014
Fullmer, Ray
1952-1957
Shulman, Sondra
1994
Kimes, Marion
1994
Spinks, Thomas
1888
Tsutakawa, George
1994
Valenzuela, Rodrigo
2015
Kraftt, Robert
1994
Nestler, Rose
2018
Engelmeyer, Joan
1993
Crispwick, Mr.
1993
Mee, Nancy
1994
Valenzuela, Rodrigo
2015
Klebeck, Michael
1994
Lowly, Tim
2004
Chickadel, Carmine
1993
Fenton, Anne
2012
Henry, Mary
1975
Simpson, Buster
1974-2013
Roche, Judith
1994
Valenzuela, Rodrigo
2015
Harvey IV, Harry Gould
2022
Berk, Leo Saul
2015
Christie, Leona
1994
Simakov, Ivan
1921
Steinbrueck, Victor
1973
Guzak, Karen
1994
Valenzuela, Rodrigo
2015
Bertolino, James
1994
Yamahira, Ko Kirk
2019
Unknown
1917-1929
Predil, Viktor A.
ca. 1900
Stern, Chris
1993
Faye, Jules Remedios
1994
Valenzuela, Rodrigo
2015
Calderwood, Nancy
1994
Linklater, Duane
2016
Blevins, Don
1993
Meira do Valle, Juliana
2012
Fejes, Claire
ca. 1976
Valenzuela, Rodrigo
2015
Dennis, Lockwood
1994
McDaniel, Gisela
2021
Rivers, Gene
ca. 1988
Bradford, Katherine
2022
Blocker, Mare
1994
Focke, Anne
2013
Ojih Odutola, Toyin
2014
Hamrick, Sam
1994
Guinn-Gilles, Glenda
1994
Rahmanian, Hesam
2016
Bremner, Alison
2017
Mitchell, Jeffry
2012
Tsutakawa-Chinn, Kenzan
1994
Valenzuela, Rodrigo
2015
Cavazos, Xavier
1994
Smith, Cauleen
2015
Jet, Jimmy
1993
Beyers, Margi
1993
Harris-White, Catherine
2012
Hunter, Paul C.
1994
Moor, Dimitrii S.
1920
Valenzuela, Rodrigo
2015
Emminger, Joe Max
1994
Akashi, Kelly
2021
Valenzuela, Rodrigo
2015
German, Jim
1993
Hopper, Janette K.
1996
Simpson, Buster
1974-2013
Noah, Barbara
1994
Seifu, Eden
2022
Berk, Leo Saul
2015
Boafo, Amoako
2021
Crowell, Web and Stacey Levine
2015
Paquette, Virginia
1994
Hickmann, Fritz
1855
Moor, Dimitrii S.
1921
Bernstein, Steven J.
1994
Christie, Leona
1994
White, Anthony
2019
Itter, Julian E.
ca. 1898
Bard, Gayle
1994
Valenzuela, Rodrigo
2015
Chacona, George
1994
Siegel, Amie
2013
McMahon, Gene Gentry
1993
Gardiner, T. Michael
1993
Alley-Barnes, Maikoiyo
2012
Yamamoto, Traise
1994
Valenzuela, Rodrigo
2015
Johnson-Ricks, Khari
2021
Joseph, Kahlil
2016
Lindsay, Vachel
1993
Troyon, Constant
1860-1865
Unknown
1920
Wokoma, Inye
2016
Jones, Fay
1994
Ramsay, Francis Dennis
n.d.
Quaicoe, Otis Kwame Kye
2020
Mullin, Paul
2015
Robalino, Mauricio
1994
Haerizadeh, Rokni
2016
Britto, Romero
2017
McCue, Frances
1994
Valenzuela, Rodrigo
2015
Baker, Alex O.
1994
Reskala, Georgina
2017
Schneider-Blumberg, Bernhard
1914
Crispwick, Mrs.
1993
Alley-Barnes, Maikoiyo
2012
Law, Carolyn
1994
Valenzuela, Rodrigo
2015
Paschkis, Julie
1994
Ramirez, Bony
2021
Zaher, Maged
2015
Evans, Dennis
1993
Unknown, American
1800-1899
Fejes, Claire
n.d.
Rosa, Salvator (attributed to)
1625-1675
Allen, Judith
1994
Chowdhury, Srijon
2022

Formation

Kelly Akashi

Chromogenic crystallograph in aluminum artist's frame

2021

Bamboo No.17

Lockwood Dennis

Letterpress and woodcut

1994

Ode to Octavia: Cranium Adornment #5

The Black Constellation

Composited bone, enamel, found goggles

2012

Ode to Octavia Part 12: (Sparkles)...Recollections of the Wraith

The Black Constellation

Digital video (color, sound); 4:49 min.

2012

Ode to Octavia: Neo-Ancient Taliswoman

The Black Constellation

Incantation, repurposed bronze, brass, silver, stainless steel, rosewood, beechnut, abalone shell, ibex and dik-dik horn, precious and semiprecious stones, 1996 GMC truck key

2012

Forward in the Defense of the Urals!

Aleksander Apsit

Poster reproduction

1919

Defend Petrograd with Your Own Life!

Aleksander Apsit

Poster reproduction

1919

Untitled (Badlands)

Juventino Aranda

Oil on wool Pendleton blanket

2018

Bamboo No.6

T. Michael Gardiner

Letterpress and lithograph

1993